Category: Gallery and Museum Art
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Eye Candy for Today: Adélaïde Labille-Guiard self portrait with students
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond, Adélaïde Labille-Guiard; oil on canvas, roughly 83 x 59 inches (210 x 151 cm). Link is to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has the original in its collection and offers zoomable and downloadable images. Adélaïde Labille-Guiard was one of only four…
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Jarosław Jaśnikowski
Jarosław Jaśnikowski is a Polish artist working in the vein of magic realism/neo-surrealism whose work carries the influence of the original Surrealists as well as their artistic descendants. In particular, you can see his admiration for the work of Spanish Surrealist Salvador Dalí and contemporary steampunk fantasy art. The latter infuence often takes the form…
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Eye Candy for Today: Raphael figure studies
Nude Studies, Raphael, red chalk and metalpoint, roughy 16 x 11 in. (40 x 28 cm); link is to zoomable images on Google Art Project, downloadable file on Wikimedia Commons. original is in the Albertina, Vienna. Raphael is considered to be one of the greatest draftsmen in history, and this relatively well known drawing of…
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Eye Candy for Today: Henry Biva landscape
Matin à Villeneuve (Morning in Villeneuve), Henri Biva; oil on canvas, roughly 59 x 49 in. (151 x 125 cm); link is to Wikimedia Commons; original is in a private collection French painter Henri Biva, who was active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, gives us a beautifully idyllic scene of mprning on…
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Devin Michael Roberts
Originally from the west coast, painter Devin Michael Roberts now divides his time between Washington State and the Ozark Mountain region of Missouri. Roberts paints in oil, watercolor and gouache, often taking as his subjects woods, fields and streams. I particularly like several of his paintings of creeks lined with foliage in the dramatic theatrical…
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Eye Candy for Today: Claude Mellan single line engraving
Face of Christ on St. Veronica’s Cloth (alternately: Sudarium of Saint Veronica), Claude Mellan, engraving on paper, roughly 17 x 13 in. (43 x 31 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, (click on image to zoom, click small down arrow to download) This remarkable engraving by 17th century French engraver and…